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Darrel Draper
Practitioner of Performing Arts and D.I.E.
Profile: My passion for performance is equally matched by my desire to
teach the subject, as I believe it has been a great benefactor to my social and
professional development as a person. With my teaching I wish to reflect the
strong enthusiasm I have for the arts and approach the subject innovatively to
inspire others to excel and progress not only as actors, but as confident and
driven individuals entering into the world of professionalism.
Subject Training:
-2014-2015 PGCE Degree (pending)
-2012-2013- (PTLLS) Teaching Qualification awarded. LV4
-2011-2014 BA Theatre Arts Degree. 2.1.
-2011-Diploma in Drama in Education. Passed with Distinction.
-2009-2010 HNC LV5 Theatre Arts. Passed with Distinction.
-2008-Trinity Guildhall Advanced Acting Examination. Passed with Distinction.
-2007-2009 National Diploma Performing Arts. Passed with Distinction.
-2006-2007 BTEC Diploma Performing Arts. Passed with Distinction.
-2005 GCSE Drama. Graded B.
Key Achievements:
-2015 I received a grade 1 during a teaching observation.
-2010 Voted Group Representative Middlesex University.
-2010 Winner of One-Act Playwright Competition. ACT theatre.
-2010 Winner of Poetry Competition. Brentwood Theatre.
-2009 Havering College Student of the Year in Subject Study.
-2008 Jack Petchey Award for Outstanding Achievement.
-2007 Havering College Student of the Year in Subject Study.
Relevant Experience:
-July-August 2015. Drama Practitioner for the NCS with The Challenge:
I am due to return to my annual summer position as a Drama practitioner for the
NCS. Please see July-August 2014 for further information on this position.
-September 2014- July 2015. PGCE Teaching Placement at Havering
College.
While training to be a qualified teacher I have accumulated over a hundred and fifty
hours of independent teaching. I have been responsible for creating and delivering
schemes of work for a variety of units, grading and assessing students, tracking
progress, devising assignment briefs and implementing self created assessment
tools, marking all written work, holding one to one tutorials, covering colleagues

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lessons during absences and generally maintaining a dependable and professional
work ethic.
-July 9th-August 31st 2014. Drama Practitioner for the NCS with The
Challenge:
Teaching Drama to those aged 15-17 and facilitating community visits to care homes,
learning disability centres and other community groups, where the students interact
with these various people in order to develop a Drama Performance with the aim to
raise awareness for these specific community groups, and to promote individual
social development. I am in charge of leading these young people through this
process, and developing and delivering a Drama syllabus that supports the National
Citizen Services ethos.
-November 2013-April 30th
2014. Teaching intern at Havering College.
Teaching Drama to those aged 16-19. I was responsible for facilitating learning,
supervising and independently leading Drama lessons, and directing student
productions. Additional duties included, lesson planning, behaviour monitoring,
completion of witness statements and documentation used to assess students
academic progression.
Other Experience in Relation to Teaching:
Whilst at college I had additional experience working with pupils at key stage 3 and 4
as one of the units of study was Theatre in Education in which we toured many
schools offering the performance of an educational play as part of an enrichment
programme. After each performance we interacted with the pupils and evoked further
understanding and acknowledgement of the subject content raised, we did this
through Q&A and interactive exercises relating to the play and the characters
portrayed. At university I independently directed a play and was responsible for
collating the performance, from script to stage, I utilised many physical and vocal
exercises I have been taught over the years and employed various performance
methods to create a unique acting approach.
During summer break I took a distant learning course in D.I.E and learnt the
fundamentals behind the teaching of drama and the mandatory teaching
requirements of the subject area, according to curriculum. I discovered effective
teaching approaches to each strand of the syllabus, whilst broadening my subject
knowledge and learning how to mould the discipline of drama to be a valuable tool
which can be utilised as a kinaesthetic approach to any subject area.
Relevant knowledge and Experience Regarding Subject Area:
During my time spent in education and as an independent actor I have explored
various traditions of performance and have an in depth understanding of many
stylistic acting approaches, some of these being, Konstantin Stanislavsky’s methods
of naturalism, Bertolt Brecht’s conventions of Epic Theatre, Artauds theatre of the
absurd, Tzara’s approach to Dadaism and William Shakespeare’s use of language in
accordance to classical performance. I have also studied le- coque’s methods of
physicality, Peter Brooks theories on theatricality, the disciplines of bio-mechanics,
existentialism and Ionesco’s use of surrealism. I have directed performance as well
as written for performance, performed as a solo artist and have technical experience

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within lighting and set design. My knowledge and understanding of the intimate
connection between the body and voice in performance is vast, both practically and
theoretically, as an actor my greatest strength is versatility and I wish to demonstrate
this as a core component to any aspiring actor’s dramatic repertoire.
References on request.